1988 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship 

  • Diana Sheridan, Speech, “Achieving Global Harmony: Ecofeminist Strategies of Peacemaking”
  • Linda Allen, Speech, “The Rhetorical Construction of Motherhood”
  • Maria DePriest, English, “Necessary Fictions”
  • Mary Courtis, Anthropology, “A Comparative Study of Female Religious Experience and Expression”
  • Pat Marks, English, “Contradictions Between 'Woman' and 'Women': Female Subjectivity in the Novels of Marge Piercy”
  • Rosalie Caffrey, Anthropology, “Women as Caregivers of the Elderly in Rural Thailand: Changing Patterns
  • Susan Lewis, Anthropology, “Finnish-American Women as Socializers and Communicators of Ethnicity, Gender, and Class”
  • Susanne Bohmer, Sociology, “Pathways into Mental Health Treatment: Women's Histories of Seeking Help for Emotional Distress”

Teaching Support 

  • Anita Weiss, International Studies, “Aid to developing countries: women in development”
  • Deborah Casey, Academic Learning Services, course on writing across genres: building writing competence and confidence of older-than-average women returning to academia
  • Douglas Blandy, Art Education, “Art Making Contributions of Women”
  • Janice Jipson, Teacher Education, “Women and Children in the Workplace”
  • Juan Epple, Romance Languages, “Spanish-American Women's Autobiographies”
  • Marsha Ritzdorf, Planning, Public Policy, and Management, “Planning and the Changing Family: African Women”

Faculty Research Grant 

  • Aletta Biersack, Anthropology, “Ole Ronkei's Autobiography”
  • Becky Sisley, Physical Education and Human Movement Studies, “Women in the Workplace of Coaching”
  • Colette Craig, Linguistics, “Miss Nora: Rescuer of the Rama Language”
  • Frances Cogan, Clark Honors College, “Captured! The Heroism and Odeal of American Women Held by the Japanese in the Philippines, 1942-45”
  • Jean Stockard, Sociology, The Study of Occupational Learning (Springfield Project)
  • Joyce Mitchell, Political Science, “Dimensions of Sociopolitical Change: Women's Association to Public Office in the West”
  • Juan Epple, Romance Languages, “Reassign the Canon in Latin America Nineteenth-Century Novel”
  • Kathleen Nicholson, Art History, “Allegorical Depictions of Women in 18th Century French Portratiure Redefining the Myth of Courtly Femininity”
  • Kathy Gentile, English, “Ivy Compton-Burnett”
  • Lisa Ponder, Independent Research, “Toward a Comprehensive Analysis of the Development of L. Maria Child's Early Legal Philosophy, 1802-33”
  • Mary Wood, English, “The Writing on the Wall: Autobiographies by Women in American Mental Institutions, 1865-1932”
  • Marilyn Farwell, English, “Lesbian as Metaphor in Contemporary Women's Theory and Literature”
  • Marsha Ritzdorf, Planning, Public Policy, and Management, “America Transformed: Municipal Land Use Planning and Changing Gender Roles”
  • Maureen Weiss, Physical Education and Human Movement Studies, “Sport Socialization Patterns and Role Model Selections of Female Athletes and Non athletes: A 10-year Update”
  • Richard Stevenson, English, Clark Honors College, “The Role of the Heroine in the Novels of Jane Austen and George Meredith”
  • Robert O'Brien, Sociology, “Assaults by Husbands: The Impact of Wives' Economic Resource Independence”
  • Suzanna Clark, English, Oregon State University, “The Unwarranted Discourse: Women Writers and the Revolution of Poetic Language”
  • Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco, Independent Filmmakers, “Daughters of the Land: An Overview of Women Migrant Workers”

Faculty Travel Grants 

  • Anita Helle, English, "Gender and Politics of Classroom Discourse" at the National Council of Teachers of English
  • Anita Weiss, International Studies, "Taking Off A Burn and Putting on a Chador: Lahori Women's Visions of Power, Development, and Social Change" at the Association for Asian Studies
  • Barbara Corrado Pope, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, "Processione: Sicily's Very Human Sacred Journey" at the Western Association of Women Historians
  • Donna Hammer, Speech, "Feminist teaching and feminist research methods: Are there similarities?" at the Western Speech Communication Association
  • Doris Tishkoff, History, "The Call to Revolution in the Boudoir: A New Look at Mozart's Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro" at Symposium: Austria in the Age of the French Revolution
  • Joanne Taylor, Anthropology, American Anthropology Association
  • Maribel Pinas-Espigule, Romance Languages, "El Silencio de las Sirenas y la Creatividad Femenina" at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literature
  • Marie Harvey, School and Community Health, "Evaluating new contraceptive technologies: The contraceptive sponge" at the American Psychological Association
  • Lisa Ponder, Independent Research, "The Legal Philosophy of Maria Child and Its Impact upon Her Law Reform Strategy" at the American Studies Association
  • Michele Hawkins, School and Community Health, "Programming for Women's Health: Fortune 500 Companies" at the American Public Health Association Convention
  • Patricia Gwartney-Gibbs, Sociology, for expenses toward planning a book on cross-national patterns of sex and race stratification